"J.C. Roberts" <list-...@designtools.org> writes:
...
> I know SYN+FIN is a valid packet according to RFC 793 and 1644 (T/TCP),
> but the more important question is, "what are the valuable *uses* for
> SYN+FIN packets?"
>
> Personally, I can't think of any valuable uses. Can you?
...
There is a use actually. If you want to do "minimal packet count
transactions", then you want this. Here's a better description,
http://www.sean.de/Solaris/ttcp.html
I don't know of anything that requires this, or even makes it possible
to do this in a rational way.
A "smart" tcp based rpc mechanism, or perhaps sort of "odd"
http application (embedded controllers on slow network segments?) might
be candidates for this kind of logic.
-Marcus Watts
